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CUH Annual Awards 2024 - winners announced!
The winners of the Cambridge University Hospitals Annual Awards 2024 were announced at a special ceremony held on Thursday 21 November to celebrate and recognise around 200 staff members shortlisted from 1,900 nominations.
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Safety conscious Trust staff back THIS film
Staff at Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie maternity hospital are supporting an organisation dedicated to improving quality and safety in healthcare.
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Trust backs international cancer study aided by ‘super survivors’
Addenbrooke’s is to take a leading role in a study aimed at unlocking the secrets of why some cancer patients survive longer than others.
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Trust scientist scoops award for pioneering TB research
A medical researcher and honorary consultant at Addenbrooke’s Hospital today receives a top prize in Berlin for her pioneering research on tuberculosis.
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Researchers’ breakthrough in fight against testicular cancer
Researchers have made an important step forward in the fight against testicular cancer - one of the most common cancers in young men with rates rising globally.
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You Made A Difference team award - September 2024
The September You Made a Difference team award goes to a team who worked relentlessly to reduce waiting times to enable the reinstatement of UKAS accreditation – our histopathology lab team.
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New Year MBE for services to child mental health
Congratulations to Dr Isobel Heyman, a psychiatrist and leading consultant on the Cambridge Children’s Hospital project - awarded an MBE for her outstanding contribution to child and adolescent mental health services.
Christmas wonderland for children’s cancer service
Brainbow, the Addenbrooke’s-based rehabilitation service for children and young people with brain tumours, teamed up with Lapland UK to give families a winter wonderland Christmas party.
Supplement advice for New Year vegans
An expert group co-founded by an Addenbrooke’s clinician has issued a “cautionary message” to those thinking of moving to a plant-based diet this January.
Technique to prevent relapse in breast cancer patients
Cambridge scientists have managed to identify and kill breast cancer cells that evade standard treatments in a new study.
Hospitals’ foodbank collections are Christmas crackers!
Christmas will be a little brighter for visitors to two foodbanks in Cambridgeshire thanks to the generosity of staff at Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie hospitals.
Rosie leads research to tackle domestic abuse
The Rosie is one of three hospitals in the UK taking part in research to assess how specialist maternity support can help those experiencing domestic violence and abuse.
Drive-through blood tests – hours reduced
Addenbrooke’s Hospital is advising that its drive-through blood testing service at Cambridge’s Newmarket Road park and ride will be operating to reduced hours tomorrow (Friday 16 Dec).
Millions pledged for newborn genetic testing
The government has announced £105 million in funding to speed up diagnosis of rare genetic diseases in newborns, potentially resulting in life-saving interventions for thousands of babies.
Online platform to check for prostate cancer risk
Cambridge scientists have created an online tool for predicting an individual’s risk of developing prostate cancer, to enable more targeted testing, treatment and early diagnosis.
Rise in patients cared for at home on ‘virtual’ wards
More than 40 Addenbrooke’s patients have swapped a stay in hospital in the last month, for care at home - provided by a new virtual ward with 24hr, 7 days a week remote medical monitoring and supported by a dedicated nursing team.
Drug to treat liver disease could prevent Covid
Using lab grown 'mini-organs' and donated human organs, researchers in Cambridge have found that a common drug used to treat liver disease could prevent Covid infection.
Life-saving ambulance service marks birthday
A life-saving service for critically ill and injured hospital patients celebrates its first birthday today.
You Made a Difference - November 2022
Our winners of You Made a Difference for November 2022 are a staff nurse and a ward manager.
Blood thinning drug does not help patients recover from Covid
A UK-wide trial, led by Addenbrooke’s and the University of Cambridge, has found that a blood thinning drug does not help patients recovering from moderate and severe Covid – despite this approach being offered to patients.
Call for wider genetic testing for children with brain tumours
A team of doctors at Addenbrooke’s have highlighted how a simple genetic screening test improved the diagnosis and treatment of a little 17-month old girl with a brain tumour – caused by a rare condition.
New hope for kidney cancer treatment
Cambridge researchers have discovered that a drug used to treat lung cancer could potentially help patients with a type of kidney cancer called renal cell carcinoma.
Two top awards for Professor Ravi Gupta
Addenbrooke's doctor and University of Cambridge professor Ravindra Gupta has won the prestigious Translational Microbiology Prize as well as being named as one of the world's most influential researchers of 2022.
Cancer patients to help trial ‘life saving’ home testing kit
Addenbrooke’s hospital is helping to trial a new home-testing device to check if cancer patients are at risk from a serious side effect of chemotherapy.
Medicine for Members: Specialist Palliative Care at CUH - pre, during and post-covid pandemic
the recent developments in the palliative care team in light of the COVID pandemic and how palliative care aims to become a more integrated service across the whole Trust.
Medicine for Members: Specialist Palliative Care at CUH - pre, during and post-covid pandemic
the recent developments in the palliative care team in light of the COVID pandemic and how palliative care aims to become a more integrated service across the whole Trust.